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Tales from first grade: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time
As if I don't have enough to worry about. My daughter is now an admitted forger.
Exhibit A:
My daughter is a bit of a Chatty Cathy. She comes from a long line of Chatty Cathys. So when I came home today and saw a Behavior Notice on the kitchen counter, I didn't really give it a second thought.
That is, until I actually read the note.
Her teacher has a color card system. A yellow card is for the first offense, an orange card for the second, and holy smokes, look out if you get a pink card, you'll be visiting the principal.
She's had a couple of yellow cards for, you guessed it, chatting. But today's note caught my eye. Not only did she get a yellow card but she managed to get into more trouble with an orange card.
And then to make matters worse, she was carded orange because she tried to sign my name to her behavior slip.
Are you kidding me? I'm still in shock. I don't know whether to throttle her or congratulate her for her "creative" thinking. And isn't this something that happens in high school not first grade?
She did her time, no lunch recess. Plus she got an additional earful from her dad and I which ended in with a pinky promise that she would make better choices in the future.
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Well it looks like she gave it a try, to tell you the truth, it is good she got caught. some kids dont get caught, and then we really get to worry... my daughter is 4, and if you didnt see her do it, then it didnt happen. i dont know where she gets it from, we have raised her so far to understand the difference from right and wrong, lying and truths, but for some reason she still wants to see if she can get away with a "who me?" act... she has had to do hard time (she picks up dog poo when she lies and is caught (for like 2 min lol)) but to her it is pure torture and detures a new lie for atleast a week or two...
That's just too funny! Sorry, but it is. My girl is only 4, and pretty much the shyest kid in her preschool class, but watch me eat my words and get a note like this one day.
I did something similar in first grade! I got in trouble for talking and not following directions (I liked to circle when it said to underline), and finally my teacher sent a note home. And the note, well, it sorta fell out of the window of the school bus ;)
A few nights later, the teacher called my mother to ask why she hadn't responded to the note. Whoops. My mother *still* talks about that--she brought it up at dinner last week!--and it's been 30 years.
I could see my daughter trying to pull something over on me like that. Until this year she was pretty shy and quiet at school and still isn't that rowdy, but she does have a sneaky/secretive side. My very social son would have been more likely to get such notes, but he has an outsized conscience and no pokerface; I'd know in five seconds if he had gotten in trouble. (Plus he was homeschooled in kindergarten and first grade, so chatting was OK.)
I don't think this is a sign of future delinquency, but it's pretty normal to wonder what the future will bring after a child does something out of character. My daughter went through a phase where she was making books with very, very dark tones. One went from cutesy, "These are the sharks swimming" in the beginning to "And this is the factory where the dead sharks get put into cans for the people to eat," complete with a drawing of dead sharks and blood. :O
If nothing else, these make for fun stories to tell perspective boy/girl friends...
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Emily
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